Achieve Retail Sustainability with Centric PLM Software

Optimize Your Product Sourcing and Development
Implement Effective Reuse and Recycling Programs
Communicate and Track Your Brands Sustainability Strategy

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Discover How Centric PLM Software Transforms Your Brand’s Sustainability Process

Streamline your sustainability efforts with advanced line planning tools.

Line Planning

Product Specifications

Materials Management

Product Sourcing

Calendar Management

Quality Management

Final Inspection

Product Presentations

Process Management

  • Orchestrate seasons, departments, collections, and sustainable product lines to meet performance targets using up-to-date product information.
  • Fully align collection development with financial planning, and generate realistic sales forecasts.
  • Easily identify outliers that impact performance, and make decisions with confidence based on data, not "guesstimates."

Depending on the goals and the type of product being developed, many 3D systems are often used to produce the desired result. Pursuing a 3D-agnostic strategy and connecting Centric PLM with multiple 3D systems offers a 360-degree view of this development.
 

Global Head of IT at Volcom

  • Create, manage and update multiple product, raw material and packaging specifications.
  • Communicate specifications effectively to minimize iterations, errors and costs.
  • Track product lifecycle changes and coordinate with all development teams so that designers, technical designers and/or product developers can do their jobs easily and efficiently.

Centric was very willing to work with us on finding new and fundamental ways of calculating our CO2e through the entire process, and not have it be this bolt-on after the fact.

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Chief Operating Officer at Allbirds, Inc

  • Empower traceability with the ability to track material usage and view the entire lifecycle of a material prior to use in a product.
  • Manage the process of developing and using simple and complex materials for maximum sustainability.
  • Analyze trends and manage changes by rolling up information from style to material for reporting or initiating changes from materials to multiple styles.

With Centric PLM we can predict material order quantities more accurately, improve access to test data for the quality team and evaluate whether materials are meeting our sustainability goals.

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Chief Operating Officer at NEMO Equipment

  • Connect sourcing teams and suppliers, and streamline communications with vendors using Centric PLM.
  • Manage all aspects of sourcing, from selecting sustainable suppliers to managing samples and prototypes to negotiating purchase orders.
  • Oversee supplier sustainability certifications, track supplier-quoted costs and send RFQs to multiple entities to easily compare quotes.

Centric PLM allows us to manage our fabric and trim library, making sure we have all the technical information we need to manage the sustainability at the very core of our business.

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Creative Director at TENTREE

  • Gain full visibility of timelines and manage tasks, deadlines and workflow across teams.
  • Configure templates to track products against target deadlines and give users visibility into where a product is in its lifecycle.
  • Enable greater transparency by keeping teams on track and collaborating on one easy-to-use platform.

Sustainability is important to our industry and people are looking for it. More and more environmental components are becoming available and that changes all the time. Without tools like Centric PLM, it is really hard to be able to trust that every shoe along your supply chain meets that standard if you don’t have that visibility.

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Senior Product Operations Manager at Wolverine Worldwide,Inc

  • Assign quality and safety goals based on both corporate standards as well as channel-specific standards.
  • Define quality assurance, performance and mechanical tests on products to eliminate quality issues.
  • Specify third party testing standards and track testing completed on sustainable materials and samples/styles to enhance quality, brand reputation and consumer loyalty.

With Centric PLM, we have much better visibility of the quantity, origins, variations and expected delivery times of samples.

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Product Development Technology Manager at Keen

  • Harness integrated data and real-time transparency into both vendor performance and production output.
  • Set acceptable quality levels and evaluation points for suppliers on a per product basis, linked to original product specifications.
  • Digitally communicate evaluation criteria and results prior to goods leaving the manufacturing site and transfer of ownership.

Onboarding Centric PLM was really integral in being able to track and measure how we’re doing against our goals for sustainability.

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Director of Product at BN3TH

  • Craft visual product presentations directly in Centric PLM, pulling real-time data to ensure accuracy.
  • Filter products, visually organize them into sets, and stay on-brand by using corporate style guides.
  • Eliminate the tedious process of exporting visuals from PLM and save time by automatically updating presentations as product data changes.

Centric PLM helps to support the pursuit of our sustainability goals.

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Chief Product Officer at Land’s End

  • Coordinate tasks between people by providing the ability to execute predefined processes on an easy-to-navigate platform.
  • Execute process flows to coordinate teams that need to complete tasks and improve efficiency, responsiveness, transparency and productivity.
  • Easily manage the artwork proofing process with an intuitive, collaborative proofing and reviewing tool.

There’s a great sense of comfort in having one place for product data and a digital workspace where we can collaborate faster, streamline communication, save time spent searching for information and analyze our progress

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Director of Production at Rothys

Source Sustainably

Enhance supply chain visibility and transparency to source more responsibly and reassure consumers. Track and manage sustainability, traceability and circularity goals and documentation in retail apparel PLM.

Reduce Excess Inventory

Navigate supply chain complexities with the ability to run what-if sourcing scenarios. Leverage Visual Boards and apparel software to assist fashion design, sourcing and assortment decisions in order to reduce wasted inventory.

Boost Sustainable Innovation

Collaborate seamlessly with internal teams and external partners in real-time. Easily send out RFQs to multiple suppliers and compare their responses. Co-create with suppliers using a dedicated vendor portal.

Accelerate Time to Market

Execute fast and improve cross-team collaboration and communication to get the right apparel products to market on time and before the competition. Reduce bottlenecks and improve workflows.

Improve Margins

Reduce operating costs and launch faster. Optimize design, product development, production planning and sourcing decisions to launch sustainable apparel products and brands that consumers want to buy.

Increase Productivity

Connect teams with the integrated product data they need using one real-time source for all stages of design, product development, sourcing and more. Connect 2D and 3D design software with Centric PLM. Eliminate time wasted on spreadsheets.

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Centric’s Retail Sustainability Customers Experience Genuine Impact

Centric PLM software empowers sustainable product development, enables the creation of eco-friendly assortments, optimizes pricing, and provides comprehensive monitoring of the entire product lifecycle. Discover how Centric PLM software drives sustainability and delivers significant benefits for our customers in the retail, fashion, footwear and luxury industries.

60%

Reduction in Time to Market

50%

Boost in Productivity

40%

Improved BOM Accuracy

30%

Reduced Working Capital

18%

Increased Revenue

15%

Increased Margins

A flexible and scalable digital foundation for growth

Learn How Centric PLM Software Supports Your Retail Sustainability Goals

Optimize each step of bringing sustainable apparel products to market, whether at the pre-season, in-season or end-of-season cycle. Drive Sustainability, streamline processes, reduce costs and maximize profitability.

Carbon Footprint

Leverage end-to-end traceability of carbon footprint data through integration with all leading sources of Scope 3 emissions databases. Powerful sourcing comparison tools make it easier to understand the impact of different sourcing options.

Raw Materials Management

Discover sustainable alternatives to materials that depend on high usage of water, energy, natural resources and harmful chemicals. Track and manage raw materials from their sources, measure key sustainability criteria and identify suitable alternatives.

Waste Management

Improve visibility and accuracy throughout the entire supply chain to lessen waste, reduce or eliminate the disposal of unwanted or unsold inventory, and dramatically reduce costs associated with overstock storage.

Supply Chain Certification

Track suppliers and their certifications, using whatever paper trail complies with your company requirements. Manage compliance programs and vendor certification, from raw materials to labor practices to the recyclability of packaging.

Social Responsibility

Integrate apparel data at the product and factory levels in order to validate claims surrounding sustainability and ethical manufacturing. Set audit criteria to conform to labor, carbon footprint, and sustainability standards.

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